"Arts Features International has provided me and colleagues with a superb platform for reaching a receptive community. Its spectrum of interests is comprehensive and inclusive and its welcome to contributors is warm and empathetic. I look forward very much to contributing further to Arts Features International and sharing in its well-deserved, growing success". Jeremy Gluck, digital artist and author based in Wales (colleagues Don Tyler, Grammy-nominated mastering engineer & electronic musician based in Los Angeles; Rosemary Osborne, educator, based in London).

Arts Features International was started. by Ruth. in Sydney in January 2003. It evolved into an arts writing and cultural research consultancy. Recently it has been revived as a literary arts journal/anthology edited by Ruth Skilbeck. The issues and their contents are listed below, from the first issue onward.

The paperback is on sale at Better Read Than Dead bookshop, King Street, Newtown (Sydney) and Cooks Hills Books, Darby Street in Newcastle, in online bookshops and from the publisher, Borderstream Books, at borderstreambooks.com.au.

Featuring the works of over thirty authors, artists, arts and cultural historians, from around the world and across urban and regional Australia, the inaugural issue of Arts Features International literary journal, addresses themes of artistic, social, cultural and technological change, in a time of major historical evolutionary transition. From the displacement and shock of transitioning from the ‘private’ timeless zone of writing to the public zone of ‘virtual reality’ and publishing via computer, to social media and digital arts production arises the need to gather together to defend our humanity, and environment, and speak in a polyphony individually together.

Arts Features International, January-March 2019: Under the Radar (Issue 2)

Published 31 January 2019

Arts Features International’s ‘Under the Radar’ issue tunes into new works, overlooked works, and works in progress. This issue features:

An extract of the epic poem The Universe Looks Down by Chris Wallace-Crabbe AM, Emeritus Professor and founding director of the Australian Centre, University of Melbourne, whose latest book Rondo is short listed for the Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry in the 2019 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards.

An etching by Kirstin Headlam in response to The Universe Looks Down.

An exegesis by Georgia Wallace-Crabbe on her China-Australia collaborative work: The Earth and The Elements.

Gregory Miller’s Cultivating Murder documentary on the murder in 2014 of Glen Turner, a NSW environmentalist, by a wealthy land-clearing farmer.

A documentary film in progress about Chris Wallace-Crabbe based on his epic poem: The Universe Looks Down.

New poetry by Richard James Allen.

Ruth Skilbeck’s interview with filmmaker Karen Pearlman on Pearlman’s work on the non-credited Soviet montage women filmmakers and Vertov’s wife, Elizaveta Svilova, editor of Man with a Movie Camera.

Michael Gormly messing about in boats on Newcastle Harbour, clearing up plastic and rubbish, in a kayak. Photo essay and article.

A chapter from US author Tom Bierdz’s psychological thriller, The Accident.

Ruth Skilbeck’s photo essay One Night in Hong Kong, and her short story of an almost fatal horse riding accident.